Turbines cast shadow over druids’ lunar festival

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Every 18.6 years the Old Woman of the Moors, or Cailleach na Mointeach, an undulating hill formation that resembles a pregnant woman resting on her back, wakes from her sleep to give birth to a rising Moon.

After the Moon rises from between her legs, it sets between the Callanish Stones - widely regarded as Scotland's Stonehenge - and drums are beaten wildly to celebrate the mysterious powers associated with the lunar cycle.

But the spectacle, which attracts pagan worshippers, New Age revellers and archaeologists from across the world to the Isle of Lewis, is now under threat, it is